Composer Jeffrey Ostrowski has done a wonderful thing. He has written a complete (or near complete) cycle of Psalms for use in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, and posted them all online for easy download, along with accompaniments, ready made for using right away. Here is the link, which you will want to bookmark and use often. He has done the hard work. It is only left to you to sing them.
In my view, he has done an excellent job in recapturing the solemnity of the old form within the limited new form structure. The text is the Responsorial Psalm but the style and approach is from our history. Neither does he sacrifice the call for external participation. It looks to me like anyone could pick up the tunes very quickly.
Again, the site is chabanelpsalms.org.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Music for the responsorial psalms by Jeffrey Ostrowski
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